Pure Storage Driver for FlashBlade

FlashBlade Manila Driver Configuration

The OpenStack Manila driver enables communication between OpenStack and FlashBlade systems. The user can use information from the FlashBlade to configure the driver by modifying the /etc/manila/manila.conf service file on the controller host. For more information on the configuration and best practices for specific OpenStack releases please visit the following link: http://support.purestorage.com/Solutions/OpenStack

Table 9.13 lists the required storage system attributes used in the /etc/manila/manila.conf configuration file.

FlashBlade Attribute	Default	Description
flashblade_mgmt_vip	None	FlashBlade Management VIP
flashblade_data_vip	None	FlashBlade Data VIP
flashblade_api	None	FlashBlade authorization API token

Table 9.13. Required FlashBlade Attributes

Add the following lines to the file, replacing login and password with the cluster admin login credentials

[DEFAULT]
enabled_share_backends=flashblade

[flashblade]
driver_handles_share_servers = False
share_backend_name=flashblade
share_driver=manila.share.drivers.purestorage.flashblade.FlashBladeShareDriver
flashblade_mgmt_ip=192.168.1.34
flashblade_data_ip=192.168.1.35
flashblade_api=<API token>

Optional Manila Configuration Attributes

You can optionally use the following attributes specific to FlashBlade in the [pure] section of the /etc/manila/manila.conf configuration file to control the interaction between the storage system and the OpenStack Manila service. (See Table 9.13.)

FlashBlade Attribute	Default	Description
flashblade_eradicate	True	Enable auto-eradication of deleted shares and snapshots.

Table 9.14. Optional FlashBlade Attributes